Word: tabloidizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unassuming Thursday evenings, that ultimately fame would come--fame and Mr. Chaplin. But the scandal sheets have headlined the affair, not as praising the advent of culture and Rimsky-Korsokof in Cambridge, but as announcing the presence of a much married man. This is as it should be: the tabloid has its story: Mrs. Chaplin sees Memorial Hall when it is most imposing--in the dead of night; and the minute portion of the public who cares for that sort of thing has Mr. Koussevitsky. The first two shall pass away but the last--fortunately--shall not pass away...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., whose tabloid newspaper ventures in California and Florida have failed, lately returned to his journalistic tutor, Publisher Hearst, in the capacity of feature writer. One of his first offerings was a lengthy autobiographical piece blaming Mr. Vanderbilt Sr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt for their son's failure. They promised him, he said, three millions "out of my inheritance" . . . then withdrew support "and left me holding the bag." Hearstly screamers broadcast this implied perfidy, together with a picture of Mr. Vanderbilt Sr.'s yacht, Atlantic, and a touching reference to the $4,000 per day it cost...
...THAW BREAKS LOOSE!" screamed the Bernarr Macfadden pornoGraphic tabloid last week, even as the Browning-Peaches story guttered. For this there was not even the excuse that the public does not know all there is to know about Harry K. Thaw. The Graphic pretended that its story would be a "warning" to "young girls" not to go out with Mr. Thaw. What maid, wife or widow needs further warning against Harry Thaw...
...been said with truth that we differ from the Romans in that we like our thrills in tabloid form whereas they chose to get their sensations at closer hand in the gladiatorial fights. Not only, however, do we prefer the sublimated honors which a well practiced imagination can build up, but in the course of 2000 years or so we have become more delicate in our tastes. No longer does a good, old fashioned, out and out murder whet the public appetite; we must have infinite complications--simple enough to be comprehended, but spicy--everything from Pig Women to perjury...
...Alumni Bulletin? If he wanted to clear the air between Harvard and Princeton, and settle once and for all the Princeton "dirty" football why did he not write for a Harvard-Princeton audience instead of going to a popular, sensational weekly whose circulation is largely among the readers of tabloid newspapers, among the rank and file of the subway strap-hangers, among those outside the collegiate circle, whose only possible interest in the Harvard-Princeton football break is the amount of dirt to be squeezed out of it. Already the athletic relations between the two universities have been made into...